Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Life gave me lemons, then I met you and you had Vodka. Now my life is a party.

I shot him daggers. Along with swords, scythes, scalpels, shivs, shanks, stilettos, and any other sharp weapon I could think of that began with an “s.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.